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In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuskin was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability, ethical consumerism, and craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J.M.W. Turner in which he argued that the principal duty of the artist is \"truth to nature\". This meant rooting art in experience and close observation. From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites, who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring 1847, Ruskin became closer to Euphemia \"Effie\" Gray, the daughter of family friends. The couple were engaged in October and they married on 10 April 1848 at her home, Bowerswell in Perth, once the residence of the Ruskin family. The marriage was unhappy, with Ruskin reportedly being cruel to Effie and distrustful of her. The marriage was never consummated and was annulled six years later in 1854. 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They rejected the academic art of the Royal Academy and instead sought inspiration in the art of the Italian Renaissance period before Raphael. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"3096898007996192440\"\u003eThe group's name reflected their preference for the \"primitive\" and \"innocent\" style of that era.\u003cspan class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"658cb21f-afe5-40e7-818e-d80903faf6db\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"UV3uM\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"3096898007996192440\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"658cb21f-afe5-40e7-818e-d80903faf6db\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"UV3uM\"\u003eIt was founded by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member \"Brotherhood\" partly modelled on the Nazarene movement. 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